Using a Die in a Different Way

 Hey Everybody,

Misti's challenge for today is to make a masculine card. You can find her challenge here.  

I blended crushed curry, pumpkin pie and old olive inks on white cardstock. I dry embossed the white cardstock with the Stampin' Up-Paradise Garden embossing folder. I place the inked up side on the debossed side of the embossing folder. (I put it in with Stampin' Up logo on the back not the front.)

 I pulled pecan pie ink over the cardstock then used the die to cut out the pieces with the Stampin' Up-Paradise Garden die and a piece of pumpkin pie cardstock. 

  I ran the crushed curry card base through the embossing machine in the same embossing folder with the right side up for texture behind my image panels. I stamped my sentiment in pecan pie on pumpkin pie cardstock and added it all to the card base. This will go to a nursing home for the use of the residents.

Keywords: CAS901

Stamps: Stampin' Up!-Paradise Garden

Paper: white, pumpkin pie, crushed curry

Paper Size: A2

Ink: old olive, pumpkin pie, crushed curry, pecan pie

Accessories: Stampin' Up!-Paradise Garden Hybrid Embossing Folder, blending brushes, Paradise Garden die

Techniques: black-out technique, dry embossing

This was a different way to use a die for me. I usually cut out images with dies to give them a shape and a background. I saw how someone did this with a die and wondered how it would look with this die. I like how it turned out.

I also liked the idea that I wasn't having to color the leaves from the embossing folder in with brushes, or markers. I just blended the inks on white cardstock any way I wanted then embossed the cardstock. It was easy!

The Paradise Garden die set also has a hexagon that I want to try to use for something also.

Now it's your turn. Take a look at your dies and see if you can use them to shape your card like I did. Or find another creative way to use your dies. Or, maybe just get some dies out and use them.  Sometimes they sit in a drawer or cabinet and are forgotten.  Dust them off and create something with them.

Thanks for stopping by.

Blessings,

Sue